Transmissions
XMTR Festival 26: Radio Limbo Hastings
Limbo Tapes/ Pete Hazell (UK 2026)
Limbo Tapes aka Pete Hazell (UK, 2026)
46 min
This atmospheric and darkly playful show celebrates radio as a shape-shifting escape from reality. Radio Limbo presents alternative listening experiences by recycling and remixing audio plunder from a range of broadcast styles and eras. Hosted by Pete Hazell, the listener is guided through a signature montage of imaginary scenes, live sound, and audio curios that reflect, parody and warp familiar signals. At times surreal and dreamlike, other times satirical or theatrical, the show takes themes associated with the venue and treats them as threads to pull at.
Produced by Pete Hazell aka Limbo Tapes
Piano: Phil Smith
Special Guest: Nicky Roper
Comissioned for XMTR Audio Arts Festival 2026
XMTR Festival 26: All Washed Up
Sarah Frosh and Pete Hazell (UK 2026)
Sarah Frosh & Pete Hazell (UK, 2026)
24 min
A site specific sound walk that can also be listened to on your sofa.
Washed ashore after an unearthly storm, you awaken on the beach with no memory of how you arrived there!? Step into a parallel town where ley lines, dark magic and strange seaside folklore await. You’ll be moving through an uncanny version of St Leonards where familiar streets become portals into the surreal. Guided by Sirens, broadcasts, music, and mysterious sonic signals, you’ll be led to question a thing or two...
Produced by Sarah Frosh and Pete Hazell aka Limbo Tapes
Comissioned for XMTR Audio Arts Festival 2026
XMTR Festival 26: Manhunt in St Leonards: Station
M Cristina Marras and Gianfranco Bitti (IT 2026)
M. Cristina Marras + Gianfranco Bitti (IT, 2026)
8 min
Manhunt at St Leonards-on-Sea is a 7-episode location-based audio drama unlocked via QR codes at historically significant sites across St Leonards-on-Sea. Listeners follow physical traces embedded in the neighbourhood (objects planted in thrift shops, "lost" posters) while characters based on real people observed and documented in the town drift through the plot, blurring fiction and reality until St Leonards itself starts to feel like a film set.
A woman hunts down a con man who stole valuable secrets. They're former lovers. She tracks him using Moscow rules — the private signal system from their relationship, now repurposed as tradecraft.
As part of their XMTR Festival Residency, Cristina and Gianfranco explored St Leonards, weaving in their personal experiences with a big dose of fantasy.
Produced by M.Cristina Marras and Gianfranco Bitto
Commissionned for XMTR Audio Arts Festival 2026
XMTR Festival 26: Fading Transmissions from a Republic of Ruins
Blake Pfeil (US 2026)
Blake Pfeil (US 2026)
33 min
“Fading Transmissions from a Republic of Ruins” is an experimental live docu-audio performance and visual exhibition that explores abandoned spaces as sites of memory, disappearance, and lingering transmissions. The piece combines live storytelling, archival tape, and ambient field recordings, manipulated in order to create the feeling of the audience becoming a rogue radio transmission that drifts into America’s historical underbelly. Developed under the banner of the U.K. Press Gazette Future of Media Award nominee Blake Pfeil's acclaimed multimedia travelog “All-American Ruins,” this particular experience journeys into the abandoned Sumner School in Topeka, Kansas — one of the segregated schools central to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education. Drifting in and out of dreamlike sonic reconstructions of personal reflection and grandiose Americana mythology about migration and race, the piece explores what it means for a place historically significant to exist simultaneously as landmark, ruin, and unresolved cultural strife.
Produced by Blake Pfeil
Brago and the Baccoo
Lisa Levi, Brian Richardson (TT, 2026)
Lisa Levi, Brian Richardson (TT, 2026)
5 min
A Caribbean horror story. Folklore today. Brago pays the price and battles the Baccoo to survive.
Produced by River-Stories LAB,
Music by Alex Thomas,
Performed by Brian Richardson
Written by Lisa Levi
Sweet Little Human - Bugs, Bees and Bad Decisions
Orkan Media (DK 2025)
Nikolaj Kirk, Roxanne Batty, Jens Raunkjær and Magnus Møller (DK, 2025)
14 min
Mother Nature, played by punk legend Iggy Pop, has had a tough few thousand years. Tired and traumatized by relentless human expansion, they battle many of the ills that plague humans today: Addiction, anxiety, depression. And, of course, cynical, unpredictable rage.Their only solace? A good glass of whisky with their clumsy assistant Mr. Bee.
But all is not lost. Mother Nature decides it's time to make a change. And what better way to tell a tragic story about humans but through yet another podcast?
Enter 'Sweet Little Human' - a podcast all about the mess humans have made on planet Earth and their incredible ability to ignore and sidestep the issue. Even if it means the end for their silly little species.
Written, edited and produced by Nikolaj Kirk, Roxanne Batty, Jens Raunkjær and Magnus Møller.
www.orkanmedia.com
Featuring Iggy Pop as Mother Nature, Anjuli Deo as The Editor, and Maya Tekeli as Freelance Journalist Maya Tekeli.
Festival Selects: Buy Me a Drink and I'll Tell You a Story (S2E1)
Thomas Dudkiewizc - URLAND (NL 2025)
Thomas Dudkiewizc - URLAND (NL, 2026)
29 min
A bar. A piano playing in the background. In the corner, a mysterious man is waiting. If you buy him a drink… he’ll tell you a story.
What follows is a surreal, cinematic tale. Sometimes horrifying, sometimes philosophical, always immersive. Each episode, another drink. Each story, stranger than the last. One man, one bar, infinite stories.
Season 1: From the bottom of the ocean to a storm in the desert, from ancient stones to time loops in Room 304. Thomas weaves a masterful tapestry of reality, myth, horror, and memory.
Season 2: The story continues. The second season promises four new unique immersive stories. Life in the wild west, mindcontrolling government experiments, a film noir detective and a very special kind of cider.
All stories are connected through an overarching storyline. But you can also just listen to the separate stories.
n his neverending pursuit to uncover the Story of all Stories, URLAND’s master storyteller Thomas (known for The Last Chapters, Bedtime Stories, and Bobby Baxter) and sound designer Tomas Loos present Buy Me a Drink and I’ll Tell You a Story, an immersive audio fiction series available online. Thomas, the man of infinite stories, voices all characters and writes all episodes.
Written, performed, directed by Thomas Dudkiewicz (URLAND)
Sound design by Tomas Loos
Festival Selects: Everything And The Kitchen Sink
Martin Austwick (CA 2025)
Martin Austwick (CA, 2025)
A Climate Revolution with Songs
Jess Hamilton (AU 2025)
Ned Hartford (US 2025-6)
19 min
Episode One of the 12-episode, Metra: A Climate Revolution with Songs, available wherever you get your podcasts.
Metra is an original musical fiction podcast about how we change the world. The show weaves myth, magic, and music to tell a story about the power of collective action—and about all we have that’s still worth saving. Featuring a Broadway cast including Tony nominee Jeannette Bayardelle, Fred Inkley, Cherrye J. Davis, Corinna Schulenburg, and many more.
Written and created by The Hartfords.
The year is 2043. The world is hot, water is scarce, the weather is unpredictable…and the fossil fuel industry continues to thrive. The wealthy are comfortable in their air-purified, cooled, humidified, superbly hydrated Bubble cities. But in a roadside bar on the Outside, an unlikely group of revolutionaries is about to demand a new story.
Script co-written by Emily and Ned Hartford
Dialogue directed by Emily Hartford
Music and Lyrics by Ned Hartford
Sound Design and Sound Editing by Ned Hartford
All audio produced, mixed, and mastered by Ned Hartford
Festival Selects: All-American Ruins: Sober
Blake Pfeil (US 2023)
Blake Pfeil (US 2023)
15 min
A multimedia travelogue where Blake Pfeil recounts experiences exploring abandoned spaces across the United States and reimagines them through multimodal storytelling.
The cornerstone piece of the project is abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast, an award-winning audio series which guides listeners through immersive sonic fantasies, recreating experiences exploring abandoned spaces across the United States and around the world. Along the way, the show asks critical questions about American history and culture, community, capitalism and economics, the environment, and mental health while encouraging folks to activate their imaginations as a tool for healing.
The show was recently featured as an Official Select at On Air Fest in Los Angeles, California. The finale for season two is the most personal journal yet. In the episode, which takes place at an abandoned brewery in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Blake reflects on his journey to sobriety, and how his spiritual connection to abandoned places pulled him through the darkest time in his life
Produced by Blake Pfeil
Music by Indigo Days, Lotus, Joseph Beg, Lama House, and Brett Gregory
Featuring Isabel Wilder, Nik Magill